May 2012
20 posts
“In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all....”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via booksfrommyshelf)
“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (via prettybooks)
“I just thought we could hang today. Maybe see a movie, get something to eat. We...”
– Dean, Gilmore Girls. (via booksandquills)
“I love you” needs my own language.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Don’t be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from...”
– The Boy Who Lived Forever | Time Magazine (via gypsy-sunday)
This is probably the best, non-judgmental description of fan fiction I’ve ever heard of in main stream media.
(via raeseddon)
I will forever reblog this.
(via roachpatrol)
Yes good.
(via sherlockholmesanddoctorwatson)
April 2012
12 posts
“After that day when I saw the elephant, I let myself see more and believe more....”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via alaskuhyoung)
“We will meet again
in the lake
you as water
I as lotus blossom
You will...”
– Rose Ausländer, “Love VI” (translated by Vincent Homolka)
March 2012
14 posts
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via align)
“Deep rivers run quiet.”
– Haruki Murakami, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (via wordswrittenoff)
“But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
– Jane Austen (via larmoyante)
“I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I...”
– Steven Wright (via liquidnight)
“You’re not boring. You’ve got to stop saying that, or people will start...”
– An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (via followandreblog)
“a bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where...”
– e.e.cummings (via girlinlondon)
February 2012
9 posts
“Our embrace lasted too long.
We loved right down to the bone.
I hear the...”
– Anna Świrszczyńska, from “I’ll Open the Window” (via proustitute)
